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Lavin Considers Possibility of Assistant’s Job at Purdue

By Steve Henson
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Steve Lavin plans to discuss with Purdue Coach Gene Keady returning to the Boilermakers as an assistant. Lavin, the UCLA coach the last seven seasons and a Purdue graduate assistant from 1988 to ‘91, might want assurances he would become head coach when Keady, 66, retires in two or three years.

“Because of my special feelings for Coach Keady, Purdue and greater Lafayette, this is one of the few places I would consider being an assistant coach,” Lavin said.

Jay Price, Purdue’s top assistant, is expected to leave for Illinois to work for Bruce Weber. Keady said he would consider Lavin and former Purdue players Linc Darner and Todd Mitchell as possible replacements for Price.

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Lavin also had discussions with ESPN this week to become an analyst next season. Lavin has a six-year, $1.19-million buyout from UCLA. Any money he makes during that time would be subtracted from the buyout.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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